Goga Maglakelidze studied at the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts (1981-1987). He was a member of the group of artists “Archivarius” since 1984. Goga Maglakelidze, with the artists of the “10th Floor” and “Marjanishvili” informal groups, was involved in the exhibitions of the Georgian avant…

Petre Otskheli is one of the most important representatives of the Georgian Avant-garde scenography. Together with Irakli Gamrekeli, Kirill Zdanevich and other artists, he actually revolutionized Georgian stage and costume design. Instead of backdrop decoration he shifted the focus of a set designer on a…

A painter and graphic artist, participant of the the Tbilisi avant-garde life in the 1910-1920s, Alexander Bazhbeuk-Melikian was born in Tbilisi in an Armenian family and spent  all his life there. In 1910 he graduated from the Tbilisi Nikolai Sklifosovsky school of painting and drawing…

Gia Loria studied visual art from 1975 to 1979 at the Iakob Nikoladze Art School and from 1981 to 1987 at the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts. Loria was a member of the group “Archivarius” beginning in the 1980s, and he worked at the “10th…

Since the 1980s, Gela Zautashvili has actively participated in numerous exhibitions in Georgia and abroad. These include: “Generation of the ‘80s” at the Artist House, Tbilisi (1986). “Retrospective of Modern Georgian Art” at the Central House of Artists, Moscow, USSR (1987). “Georgian Figurative Art” at…

Ketevan Matabeli  graduated from the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts in 1978. She is a distinguished artist, who createsgraphics, collages and assemblages, which are decorated with various materials and has original style. In 1984 she created a series of paintings “Old Tbilisi”. The illustrations for…

Sculptor, painter, cartoonist, illustrator, actor, theater and film director and animator, one of the brightest representatives of  The Tbilisi modernism and later a prominent creator of the Stalinist period heroic propaganda films. After the Sovietization, Mikhail Chiaureli actively got involved into the film industry initiated…

Lia Shvelidze graduated from the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts (1984). Lia Shvelidze is a representative of the so-called “Generation of the ‘80s”. She was a member of the informal group of artists “Marjanishvili Theatre Workshop”. According to Lia Shvelidze those years played a crucial…

Jemal Kukhalashvili graduated from the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts in 1978 and began his creative career in the 1980s. His creative work is characterized by a distinct personality. He depicts everyday life in all its complexities and variety. The artist’s perception of the world…

Ushangi Khumarashvili (b.1948) Studied at the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts’ Faculty of Fine Arts from 1967 to 1973. Followingthat, he began working at the Telavi Drama Theater. Since the 1970s, he has regularly participated in exhibitions. He had his first solo exhibition in 1994…

Temo Javakhi (b.1951) graduated from the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts’ Faculty of Design in 1976, and from Georgian Film’s acting studio in 1974. He worked at the Tbilisi State Puppet Theater until 1995. Temo Javakhi has participated in numerous exhibitions in Georgia and abroad…

Futurist artist of Polish descent, one of the important figures of the Tbilisi Avant-garde, Zygmunt (Ziga) Waliszewski was born in 1897 in St. Petersburg. In 1908, his family moved to Georgia, Tbilisi, where he spent his childhood and youth. Here he graduated from the Nikolai…